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The Phyllome OS wiki

Phyllome¹ OS is an operating system that makes it easier to run various operating systems locally using off-the-shelf hardware and virtualization technologies.

In this wiki, you will find guides about how to install and use Phyllome OS, as well as information on the underlying technologies, Phyllome OS itself and the surrounding project.

If you wish to download the content of this wiki locally, feel free to clone this repository. {.is-info}

Install

How to install Phyllome OS

• Is Phyllome OS right for you?
• Prepare your computer
• Create an installation medium
• Install from a USB flash drive (recommended method)

Get started

How to deploy common operating systems inside Phyllome OS

Unix-like

• Install a Linux guest system using an ISO file
• Automatically deploy an RPM-based guest system with virt-install and a kickstart file

Windows NT

• Install ReactOS

Go further

Go further with Phyllome OS

• Use Phyllome OS as a live system (to test it)
• Resize an existing virtual disk
• Encrypt a directory containing virtual disk images
• Share a directory with a guest using virtiofs
• Share an input device with a guest using evdev
• Configure vfio-mdev

References

Information about technologies used by Phyllome OS

• A very short history of virtualization
• Lexicon
• External resources

Guest operating systems

• Running guest operating systems with KVM

The host operating system

• Linux Kernel modules related to virtualization
• Virtualization-related paths on Phyllome OS
• A libvirt XML commented
• Virtual I/O Devices (virtio)

(Virtual) hardware

• Chipset
• Firmware
• Display
• Input
• Graphic cards

About Phyllome OS

• Context
• Purpose
• Roadmap
• Software bill of materials
• Security
• FAQ

About the project

• How to contribute
• How to join
• Current infrastructure

Public presence

• The website: https://phyllo.me
• This wiki: https://wiki.phyllo.me
• The issue board: https://kanboard.phyllo.me
• GitHub's repositories: https://github.com/PhyllomeOS

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1. According to the Wiktionary, Phyllome refers to the "foliar part of a plant; any organ homologous with a leaf, or [any organ] produced by metamorphosis of a leaf" ↩︎